Famous Personalities

                                                                                Virat Kohli , the epitome of aggressive sportsmanship, was born on November 5, 1988, in Delhi into a Punjabi family. His father, Prem Kohli, worked as a criminal lawyer and his mother, Saroj Kohli, is a housewife. He has an elder brother, Vikash , and an elder sister, Bhavna .  He studied at Vishal Bharti Public School and was raised in Uttam Nagar, Delhi. In ninth grade, he shifted to Savier Convent in Paschim Vihar to help his cricket practice. Apart from sports, Kohli was good at academics as well, and his teachers remember him as “a bright and alert child“. Kohli’s family lived in Meera Bagh until 2015 when they moved to Gurgaon.   Kohli was appointed the vice-captain of the ODI team in 2012 and...

                                                                                                             Anand Mahindra , Born on 1st May, 1955 in Mumbai, India into a well-known business family.  Mr. Anand Mahindra is the Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra, India largest automobile company and he is  the third generation in the Mahindra family  . Mahindra & Mahindra Limited is an India-based company.   Anand G. Mahindra graduated with Honours  from Harvard  College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1977. In 1981 he secured an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School, Boston,  Massachusetts . He returned to India that year and joined   M...

                                                                                                                     Arundhati Roy , full name  Suzanna Arundhati Roy , (born November 24, 1961, Shillong, Meghalaya, India), Indian author, actress, and political activist who was best known for the award-winning novel  The God of Small Things  (1997) and for her involvement in environmental and human rights  causes.  Roy’s father was a Bengali tea planter , and her mother was a Christian of Syrian descent who challenged India's  inheritance laws by successfully suing for the right of Christian women to receive an equal share of their fathers’ estates. She spent her teena...

                                                                                                                 Narayana Murthy was born on August 20, 1946, in Mysore, Karnataka . He came from a poor but an educated family. From his childhood days, Narayana Murthy was academically brilliant. He was passionate about Mathematics and Physics and always had the thirst and the desire to gain more knowledge in these fields.   Hence, he pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mysore and later, received his Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Narayana Murthy began his career as a chief systems programmer at IIM Ahmedabad. He then s...

                                                           Saina Nehwal was born in Hisar, Haryana on 17th March 1990 to Usha Nehwal and Dr. Harvir Singh , a scientist at the directorate of oilseed research. Both of Saina’s parents were badminton champions in their native state, Haryana. Saina however grew up in Hyderabad . She   is a badminton player who made history by becoming the first Indian to ever win a Super Series tournament when she won the Indonesian open in 2010. She is also the first Indian woman to rise to the quarter finals of the Olympics. She is considered as one of the most successful Indian sportspersons and credited with increasing the popularity of the sport of badminton in India. She has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, as well as the Arjuna Award and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna from the Government of India. She i...

                                                                              Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam usually referred as A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was the 11th President of India for the term 2002 to 2007. Popularly known as the People's President he was the chief brain behind India's attainment of the nuclear status in the global arena and was known as the ‘ Missile Man of India ’ for his work on development of ballistic missiles and space rocket technology. I t was unknown to parents Jainulabdeen and Ashiamma that one day their son will become the first citizen of India.  Dr A.P.J Kalam served the country as its 11th President since year 2002 till 2007.  The pure heart of the child got its nurture and care in the humble surroundings of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu ...

                                                                      Pranab Mukherjee was born on 11th December 1935 in the village of Mirati in Birbhum district in West Bengal. His father's name is Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee, who was an activist in the Indian independence movement. His mother was Rajlakshmi Mukherjee . He married Suvra Mukherjee on 13 July 1957. Pranab Mukherjee took his education at Birbhum . He got MA degree in political science and history and also an LL.B degree from the department of law of the University of Calcutta. He began his career as a clerk in Post and Telegraph Department in Calcutta. He also worked as a journalist with the ' Desher Dak' before entering politics.  Pranab Mukherjee became a member of the Rajya Sabha in 1969. He was re-elected to the house in 1975, 1981, 1993 a...

                                                                    Kapil Sharma is a Punjabi and funky guy. He was born to an Amritsar-based Punjabi family on 2 April 1981. Kapil Sharma is an Indian stand-up comedian and actor, born in a Punjabi Brahmin family in Amritsar , Punjab.  His father was in the police force and mother was a housewife.  His father was diagnosed with cancer in 1997 and died in 2004 at   AIIMS   in   Delhi .  He studied at Shri Ram Ashram Senior Secondary School, Amristar and Hindu College in Amritsar. He is featured in the list of prominent alumni of Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar.   Sharma has a brother named Ashok Kumar Sharma, who is a Police constable and a sister named Pooja Pawan Devgan. He started his career from Punjabi channel mh1 ' hasde ...

                                                                                                        Bhavish Aggarwal belongs to the young breed of ‘ startuppers ’ who form the face of Indian entrepreneurship ecosystem currently. Having graduated from IIT Bombay in 2008, Bhavish worked for Microsoft for a couple of years before calling it quits and starting up Ola Cabs- a cab rental service. Born in Ludhiana , Bhavish just like every other success-driven and successful entrepreneur, began at a very early age. Soon after he completed his Bachelors in Technology (Computer Science and Engineering) from IIT–B in 2008, he started his career with Microsoft Research India as a Research Intern and later got reinstated as an Assistant...

                                                                                                                             Arijit Singh was born on 25 April 1987, in Jiaganj, Murshidabad , West Bengal to Punjabi father and Bengali mother. His father is LIC agent while the mother is a homemaker. Arijit Singh got a primary education in music from the family by the maternal uncle and aunt. He was taught Indian classical music by Rajendra Prasad Hazari and trained in tabla by Dhirendra Prasad Hazari . Birendra Prasad Hazari taught him  Rabindra Sangeet  (songs written and composed by  Rabindranath Tagore ) and  pop music .  At the age of three, he starte...

                                                                                                                     Arvind Kejriwal    was born on 16 August 1968 in Bhiwani, Haryana, to a well-educated couple, Gobind Ram Kejriwal and Gita Devi . Arvind Kejriwal has a younger brother and a younger sister. He  is a Social Activist turned Politician, who has been the Chief Minister of Delhi since 2015. He is the seventh Chief Minister of Delhi , a union territory as well the capital of India. But, there are other things as well, rather other qualities of Arvind Kejriwal which have made him so popular. This is something which should surely be of interest to the students as the lives o...

                                                                                   Steve Jobs or Steven Paul Jobs was an American inventor , designer and entrepreneur who was the co-founder, chief executive and chairman of Apple Computer. Apple's revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology.  Born on  February 24, 1955 in San Francisco ,California to  Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble , and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs,   a lower-middle-class couple, who moved to the suburban city of Mountain View a couple of years later.   . Jobs was smart but directionless, dropping out of college and experimenting with different pursuits before co-founding Apple with   S...

                                                                                                                                              Kapil Dev , in full  Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj , (born January 6, 1959, Chandigarh , India), Indian cricketer and the greatest pace  bowler in his country’s history. He is the only cricketer to have scored over 5,000 runs and taken more than 400 wickets in Test (international match) cricket  .   Kapil Dev was known for his energetic curved run-up and lethal outswingers as a result of that open-chested action. With the bat, he was an aggressive lower-middle order b...